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The text of this Norton Critical Edition is that of the corrected edition scrupulously prepared by Noel Polk, whose textual note precedes the text. David Minter's annotations are designed to assist the reader with obscure words and allusions.

Preface to the Second Edition

ix

(4)

Editor's Note

xiii

The Text of The Sound and the Fury

1

(200)

Backgrounds

201

(38)

William Faulkner

Appendix. Compson: 1699-1945

203

(13)

William Faulkner

Jefferson, Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi

216

(2)

William Faulkner

Selected Letters

218

(4)

To Mrs. Walter B. McLean, Wednesday [late Sept. 1927]

218

(1)

To Horace Liveright, sunday,-october [16 Oct. 1927]

218

(1)

To Horace Liveright, 30 november [1927]

219

(1)

To Mrs. Walter B. McLean, Wednesday [probably Oct. 1928]

219

(1)

To Alfred Harcourt, 18 Feb. 1929

220

(1)

To Ben Wasson, [early summer, 1929]

220

(1)

To Ben Wasson, [early summer, 1929]

221

(1)

Ben Wasson

[Publishing The Sound and the Fury]

222

(3)

William Faulkner

An Introduction for The Sound and the Fury

225

(3)

William Faulkner

An Introduction to The Sound and the Fury

228

(4)

William Faulkner

Interview with Jean Stein vanden Heuvel

232

(2)

William Faulkner

Class Conferences at the University of Virginia

234

(5)

Cultural and Historical Contexts

239

(24)

C. Vann Woodward

The Irony of Southern History

241

(2)

Robert Penn Warren

Faulkner: Past and Future

243

(3)

Richard H. King

A Southern Renaissance

246

(1)

Carolyn Porter

Faulkner's America

255

(8)

Criticism

263

(180)

Jean-Paul Sartre

On The Sound and the Fury: Time in the Work of Faulkner

265

(7)

Irving Howe

Faulkner and the Negroes

272

(3)

Ralph Ellison

Twentieth-Century Fiction and the Black Mask of Humanity

275

(3)

Olga W. Vickery

The Sound and the Fury: A Study in Perspective

278

(11)

Cleanth Brooks

Man, Time, and Eternity

289

(8)

Michael Millgate

The Sound and the Fury: [Story and Novel]

297

(13)

John T. Irwin

[Doubling and Incest in The Sound and the Fury]

310

(7)

Myra Jehlen

[Faulkner's Fiction and Southern Society]

317

(7)

Donald M. Kartiganer

[The Meaning of Form in The Sound and the Fury

324

(19)

David Minter

Faulkner, Childhood, and the Making of The Sound and the Fury

343

(15)

Warwick Wadlington

The Sound and the Fury: A Logic of Tragedy

358

(12)

John T. Matthews

The Discovery of Loss in The Sound and the Fury

370

(23)

Thadious M. Davis

[Faulkner's "Negro" in The Sound and the Fury]

393

(4)

Wesley Morris

Barbara Alverson Morris

A Writing Lesson: The Recovery of Antigone

397

(8)

Minrose C. Gwin

Hearing Caddy's Voice

405

(7)

Andre Bleikasten

The Quest for Eurydice

412

(18)

Philip M. Weinstein

"If I Could Say Mother": Construing the Unsayable about Faulknerian Maternity